5th China US S&ED: New Faces, New Issues

　　The latest China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue is due to kick off Wednesday in Washington, with new faces representing both sides on a new set of issues. CRI's Washington chief correspondent Xiaohong with more.

 

　　The Sunnylands summit between the presidents of China and the United States was just a month ago in California.

 

　　It has been hailed as an important meeting, with both sides vowing¹ to build a new type of relationship between great powers.

 

　　And observers in the US say the upcoming China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue is also a very important meeting between the two powers.

 

　　Kenneth Lieberthal is a leading China observer at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

 

　　He says both China and the United States are viewing the upcoming S&ED as an important follow up to last month's Sunnylands summit.

 

　　"Neither side saw the Sunnylands summit as an end itself. Both sides saw it as a hopefully a beginning of putting together a capacity to deal with each other at ways more meaning that overtime² will build more confidence in the future than what has transpired³ before. And both sides at the time saw the next big step as the Strategic and Economic Dialogue."

 

　　This year's S&ED is the first edition of the annual sessions since the government transition in both countries.

 

　　All four co-chairs are new faces. On the Chinese side, Vice⁴ Premier⁵ Wang Yang and State Councilor Yang Jiechi will represent China.

 

　　On the U.S. side, Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury⁶ Secretary Jack⁷ Lew will represent the United States' interests.

 

　　Richard Bush with the Brookings Institute says he believes it's also important for senior officials from both governments to build up closer personal relationships, just as the two leaders did during the Sunnylands summit.

 

　　"On the S&ED this year, I would guess one thing made it special is that in addition to Wang Yang and Secretary Lew, there are a whole lot of other people who've never met each other before. And the building up of those personal relationships between counterparts in the two governments becomes very important in the conduct of the relationship."

 

　　In addition to the new faces, there are also new issues on the horizon for this session of the S&ED.

 

　　The US side is expected to focus on cyber security, climate change, economic and trade relations, on top of military-to-military ties.

 

　　Kenneth Lieberthal with Brookings says there's room for both sides to find common ground.

 

　　"The big story here, I think, in this arena⁸, in so far as, there is one, is that the climate change issue has moved significantly up the Chinese agenda over the past year, and as you all know, it's also moved up President Obama's operational agenda as he's entered his second term. So both sides are looking for major projects to engage in and also to coordinate⁹ more effectively in their postures¹⁰ in multilateral international negotiations¹¹."

 

　　The recent establishment of a cyber security working group is also being pointed¹² to as an example of the cooperation between the Chinese and US governments.

 

　　Giving the scope and dimensions of China-U.S. relations, experts are calling for more follow up exchanges that go beyond the S&ED.

 

　　Here is Jonathan Pollack of the Brookings Institution.

 

　　"This summit, the S&ED and other events just highlight the shared stakes that the United States and China have and that the determination of a longer term will depend not on one meeting alone, one set of activities, but whether both leaderships mean what they say in terms of try to build something that is different for the longer term."

 

　　Xiaohong, CRI, Washington.

1 vowing   

起誓，发誓（vow的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。

2 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

3 transpired   

（事实，秘密等）被人知道( transpire的过去式和过去分词 )； 泄露； 显露； 发生

参考例句：

• It transpired that the gang had had a contact inside the bank. 据报这伙歹徒在银行里有内应。
• It later transpired that he hadn't been telling the truth. 他当时没说真话，这在后来显露出来了。

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

6 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

7 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

8 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

9 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

10 postures   

姿势( posture的名词复数 )； 看法； 态度； 立场

参考例句：

• Modern consciousness has this great need to explode its own postures. 现代意识很有这种摧毁本身姿态的需要。
• They instinctively gathered themselves into more tidy postures. 她们本能地恢复了端庄的姿态。

11 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

12 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。